So tonight in LA, Hollywood, California it's going to that grand evening which gives accolade to all the great movie released in 2017. I am just in time to watch all the nominees in the popular category to give my prediction for 90th Oscars Annual Academy Awards. As I always say that even being nominated means all movies and artiste are quite at par with each other winning is just merely voting by select group of people who are oscar Jury. I am ony giving prediction from nominees whereas I certainly feel there are plenty of other great movies which somehow could not able to make to nominated list. So here is my prediction which is really difficult to choose among the nominated ones and also I am predicting alternate options on some cases.

January 6, 2018

The Hungry is a 2017 Indian drama film directed by Bornila Chatterjee. It is released in Amazon Prime and is an adaptation of "Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare.

Tathagat Ahuja (Naseeruddin Shah) and Tulsi Joshi (Tisca Chopra) are two Delhi based business house who are signing a contract with the government in a new year eve party where Ankur Joshi (Suraj Sharma), an elder son of Tulsi Joshi gets mysteriously murdered and making it look like a suicide. The story progress further where Tulsi plans to marry Sunny Ahuja (Arjun Gupta), son of Tathagat Ahuja in an awkward setup. Tathagat shows his discomfort on this marriage and has a hunch that Tulsi is marrying his son to take revenge of her son's murder. Tulsi's second son Chirag (Antonio Aakeel) visits her mother for marriage and beats up Tathagat's daughter Loveleen Ahuja (Sayani Gupta) very badly over an argument in the night of sangeet ceremony. The movie goes further to unfolds revenge of revenge with a shocking ending.

It's one of the slow thrillers which can bring chill in your spine the way story unfolds. The story takes its turns and surprises you beyond imagination. It's a very well written adaption of Shakespeare and perfectly directed by Bornila. The highlight of the movie is the flawless performance of Naseeruddin Shah and Tisca Chopra. The movie may not release in theatre, do make an effort and watch it on Amazon Prime.

May 25, 2017

Bahubali 2 is the sequel of Bahubali: The Beginning taking place before and after the events of its first film. The movie set in the fictional historical era where Kattappa (Sathyaraj) continues to narrate how he ended up killing Amrendra Bahubali (Prabhas). After defeating Kalakeyas, Amrendra was declared a king and have been gone to tour a kingdom with Kattappa before his official coronation ceremony. While he was touring his kingdom he meets Devasena (Anushka Shetty), Princess of Kuntala Kingdom and falls in love with her. Bhallaladeva learns about this new development and smartly plans the conspiracy where Amrendra has to choose between Mahishmati kingdom and Devesena. Amrendra follows the dharma taught by her godmother Rajamatha Sivagami (Ramya) and leaves the crown and choose to become army chief of Mahishmati. Bijjaladeva (Nassar) & Bhallaladeva are jealous of Bahubali's popularity among people and they further plot conspiracy to banish Baahubali & Devasena from the royal palace. Amrendra still manages to rule the heart of people which makes Bhallaladeva conspire a plot and creates the false story to convince Shivagami to instruct Kattappa to kill Bahubali.

The story of his father murder evokes the emotion of vengeance in Mahendra Bahubali and prepares an army to attack Bhalladeva to avenge his father's murder.

Well, it is certainly larger than life movie especially after it's prequel which raised the standard of movie-making of Indian film industry. Bahubali is grand with flawless special effects, awesome cinematography, thrilling sound effects & great action sequences. The only place I feel movie lacks its pace is in its plot and storyline. Bahubali: The beginning was making us curious and something to look for in its story and kept us on the edge where as the sequel looked predictable and also sometimes over the board and too much of liberty on storytelling. The performance was also over dramatic which steal the soul of the movie. The highlight of the movie was it's action sequence however during climax it was too tiring to see and at one point I was feeling like- just get over with it.

I am giving it a rating of 3 out of 5, maybe because I was expecting way too much based on what it presented in its first part. Having said that Baahubali shows our artistic caliber to deliver such grand quality movie making from India. I really proud of Rajamouli to make India arrive in such quality movie making with this blockbuster.

September 18, 2016

Pink is a hindi film directed by Anirudh Roy Chowdhury is about court drama about one crime incidence happened in outskirts of Delhi. It’s a story about three girls - Minal Arora (Taapsee Pannu), Falak Ali (Kirti Kulhari) and Andrea (Andrea Tariang) who are staying together as tenants in posh Delhi locality and are working professional in their respective fields. One night, after a rock concert these three girls accepts a dinner invitation to one resort from one of Minal’s old friend Vishwa and his friend Rajveer (Angad Bedi) who is relative to a powerful politician. Rajeev and his friends gets drunk and try to molest the three girls and in retaliation Minal smashes the bottle on Rajveer’s heads and injures his eyes and runaway from that place.

The movie is about after event how the powerful intimidate those three girls and instead of police acting against boys they arrest Minal and thus trial begins in the court to convict her. Living alone in Delhi which is anyways hostile to women in the eyes of society, they come across a neighbor Deepak Sehgall (Amitabh Bachchan) who is retired lawyer suffering from bipolar disorder. Deepak decides to help the three girls and movie plays around in court sequence where it tells how as a society women gets branded as well as characterized by their normal behavior.

The movie has strong social message and may be the best movie to cover women empowerment and feminism. This movie completely belongs to Amitabh Bachchan for his flawless performance which will keep you engaged through out the movie. Even the young girls Taapsee and Kirti done superb performance with lots of maturity. The main attraction of movie is its story, screenplay and flawless direction which is perfect from all perspective.

I will rate this as a best hindi film of year so far and one of the best movie on feminism. No Indian must miss this as it shows real mindset of our feudal social system.

September 17, 2016

Masters Of Sex is an american period TV drama setup in 50s, loosely based on Thomas Maier's biography. The series tells the story of Masters and Johnson (Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson) who are portrayed by Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, two pioneering researchers of human sexuality at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The series about Dr. Masters passion towards exploring science behind human sexuality and his devotion of this work by taking study on real life samples.

It is Bold, Riveting and Amazing Drama Story about a doctor who wants to discover human sexuality. It's a very well scripted with interesting characters telling the story covering Love, Lust, Relationship, Sexuality as well as Science.

I really enjoyed watching First Season on Netflix and now on to the next. Must watch.

August 27, 2016

Raman Raghav 2.0 is a psychological thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap inspired by story of notorious serial killer Raman Raghav from Mumbai in 1960s. The movie is not about original Raman Raghav but about Raman (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) in current time who was inspired by original Raman Raghav and goes on killing random people with iron rod. While killing he come across a drug addict cop Raghavan (Vicky Kaushal) who also kills a person on same pretext as he have been caught stealing drug from drug dealer house killed by Raman. Raman surrenders himself to police and confesses all his killings but cops doesn't believes his stories and torture him to know why he actually surrendered. Raman escapes cop's safe house and then go on start killing more people and Raghavan gets to investigate his case and gets the responsibility to catch him.

The story about Raman psychological complication who believes that he have been asked by god to kill few people and he is not alone with this kind of mindset and Raghav can complete him. He finds his Raghav in cop Raghavan and wants Raghavan to agree that both of them are same. It is complicated psychological thriller which was superbly directed by Anurag Kashyap. The cinematography of dark streets of Mumbai and gruesome killing will scare you. Nawazuddin once again proved his mettle as a great actor who does such a difficult role so smoothly. If you are into psychological thriller, probably this is the best one from bollywood.